Registered Dietitian

Sinai Health is a leading academic health science centre with a provincial, national and international reputation for discovering and delivering life-changing care. We provide excellent and compassionate care in hospital, community and home. Comprised of Mount Sinai Hospital, Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital, the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and our system partner Circle of Care, we translate scientific breakthroughs, push boundaries for health solutions, and educates future clinical and scientific leaders.

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To support us on our journey, Sinai Health System is looking for a Registered Dietitian to support our Clinical Nutrition Department at Mount Sinai Hospital. The caseload for this role will primarily support patients in: General Internal Medicine but could also include other inpatient areas.

As a member of the multidisciplinary team, the dietitian assesses nutritional status, plans, implements and evaluates evidence-based nutrition care for patients according to Mount Sinai Hospital standards of care. The clinical dietitian participates in research, facilitates self-directed learning of dietetic interns, and educates students and medical/hospital staff.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identifies patients at nutrition risk and requiring intervention through nutrition screening, rounds, and referrals from in and out patient teams.
• Prioritizes caseload according to nutrition risk
• Assesses nutritional status of patients by review and analysis of medical, social and diet history, biochemical data, anthropometrics and physical examination.
• Determines patient nutritional requirements, diet prescription, enteral or parenteral nutrition regimens and nutrition care goals. Develops implements and evaluates nutrition care plans.
• Proficient enteral and parenteral nutrition care planning
• Documents nutrition care using MSH Goal-Oriented Standards of Care guidelines.
• Attends patient care rounds, team and family meetings and communicates nutrition care plan to multidisciplinary team.
• Provides coverage during absence of dietitian(s) in related specialty/program.
• Reviews current scientific literature related to areas of practice and applies current research in practice.
• Presents review/analysis of literature with dietitians and multidisciplinary team through journal review, meetings and presentations.
• Initiates/participates in practice-based research and supervises/mentors dietetic interns in research project.
• Educates the multidisciplinary team on policies, standards, and provision of nutrition care consistent with current research.

• Participates in the education and evaluation of dietetic interns, house staff, medical students, nurses and other allied health professionals.
• Develops/revises standards of nutrition care for areas
• Participates in peer review, clinical chart audits and performance appraisals.

• Baccalaureate degree from an accredited Foods and Nutrition Program or equivalent.
• Completion of an accredited dietetic internship or equivalent.
• Member of the College of Dietitians of Ontario.
• Certified Nutrition Support Clinician designation is an asset
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in acute care preferred.
• Experience with in-patient adult acute care, nutrition support, patient education preferred.
• Experience with practice based research an asset.
• Experience supervising dietetic interns an asset.
• Effective interpersonal, verbal and written communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively as member of nutrition and interprofessional teams.
• Ability to utilize information technology to support practice (Outlook, Word, CBORD, Infomed, PowerChart).
• Demonstrated satisfactory work performance and attendance.
• Hours – Weekdays according to clinical caseload and scheduling with colleagues